Tag: Governance
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‘Big data’: groter én kleiner
De digitalisering van de samenleving heeft een semi-paradoxale uitwerking: er is gelijktijdig sprake van schaalvergroting en van schaalverkleining. Het is geen echte paradox, want deze twee effecten manifesteren zich op andere operationele niveaus en zijn niet strijdig. Zoals binnen de landbouw en ecologie.
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The rebound effect of 5G
The ‘rebound effect’: in the field of sustainability, this is known as the effect where you leave your energy-efficient heating on for longer, because it’s so efficient… and end up consuming the same amount of energy as you did with your old, inefficient heating system. When discussing 5G, the rebound effect – even more than the…
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Practicing the Commons: conference days 4 and 5
My third and last blog in this series covers days 4 and 5 of the 16th IASC conference, held from 10 to 14 July in Utrecht. Thursday was a day unlike the others, because it was a day of field trips with destinations all over the Netherlands, instead of a regular conference day. While I wasn’t…
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How to see the people in the collaborative economy
More and more opinion leaders are mistaking a few big corporate platforms for the collaborative economy. We need a pro-active policy framework that bends the collaborative economy towards the public good.
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Towards a multi-level urban 3rd space – Brussels, April 4/5
On 4th and 5th April, Waag Society, EU Policy Lab and EC Research&Innovation will hold a lab session to test the idea of a ’multi-level 3rd space‘ together with city-makers and innovators, city organisations, and other stakeholders from multiple cities across Europe.